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Historical Event on 8/21/1997
Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/8/1914 | Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born. |
| 2/17/1918 | S. V. Kumaraswamy, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1961-62, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/13/1998 | India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers. |
| 4/18/1930 | Surya Sen alias Masterda attacked on Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army. |
| 2/7/1990 | Krishan Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh till 21/08/1997. |
| 8/5/1939 | In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay. |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 9/25/1916 | Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay, great litterateur, philosopher, social worker and first General Secretary of UP branch, was born at Dhankia village, Rajasthan. |
| 6/19/2000 | Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 1/31/1992 | LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court. |
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